Why? Because our two party political system can not produce candidates who represent the people!

Where? On the neutral ground on Orleans Avenue between N. Alexander and N. Murat. This is near the polling location at Dilbert Elementary School 
but is 600 feet away (see RS 18:1462 and 600 feet law regarding polling locations here)

All people who live in Louisiana are welcome to vote at the 99% Election Booth including:
•    those under the age of 18
•    those serving felony sentences
•    non-citizens
•    those judicially declared mentally incompetent
•    people who do not have the required mailing address (i.e. homeless people)
Unlike the State of Louisiana, The 99% Voting Booth welcomes write-in candidates!

The People's Convention Organizing Committee will meet 4:30pm Saturday at Café Flora in the Marigny section of New Orleans.  All who believe that there’s got to be a better way to organize a society than by putting the pursuit of profit ahead of human and environmental need are invited to attend. Additional information concerning the Peoples Convention project is presented below.


This is what democracy looks like in 2012:  THE PEOPLE'S CONVENTION

The People's Convention will be held on October 27, 2012 from 1-5pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans 5212 South Claiborne Avenue. New Orleans

The People's Convention is where the  99%, not the 1%, sets the political agenda.  We the people, as opposed to we the rich, have needs and interests that are in fundamental conflict with the 1%.  We need, for example, low and moderate income housing, the right to organize ourselves into unions, living wage jobs,  public education, an end to imperialist war, and an end to the rampant discrimination against and brutalization of African Americans.  Given the 1%’s domination of  the leaders of  the Republicans and the Democrats the conventions of  America’s two ruling parties cannot help but sacrifice the interests of  the many to satisfy the seemingly boundless greed of the privileged few.   To allow the Republicans and Democrats, in this time of economic crisis, to continue to monopolize the setting of  the nation’s political agenda is a recipe for disaster for the 99 percent.

       So why hold a People's Convention before the November 4 Presidential Election? Because the Budget Control Act of 2011, passed by the standing U.S. Congress and signed into law by the current President, guarantees that draconian cuts in federal funding for public services that we need and regressive tax increases that we don’t need will be the focus of Congressional activity during the weeks and months following the November 4.  The People's Convention and the organizing for it will put the people in strong position to give a 99 percent to an attempt to shove a 1 percent budget down our throats.

What should  the People's Agenda include?

• A public works program open to all that pays a living wage?
• Democracy not  oligarchy?
• Respecting the right of everyone to safe and decent housing?
• And end to brutalization of and discrimination against African Americans?
• Immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan?
• Selection rather than election?
• Environmental justice rather than pillage of the environment?
• And….?

Help Decide the People's Agenda: Come meet with us Saturday Sept 15 or RSVP to THE PEOPLE’S CONVENTION Facebook Event!



 

On Wednesday President Obama will visit the French Quarter to attend a campaign fundraiser  Reception For the Obama Victory Fund (OVF) at the House of Blues. The  National Urban League Conference is billing Obama's visit as as “Occupy the Vote.” This suggests that the Occupy Movement is supporting a fundraiser for a holder of public office who has been the fervent supporter of a trillion dollar plus bailout of the banking giants at the expense of everyone else. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Here is what Occupy NOLA will be requesting from the President on his July 25th visit to New Orleans.

• Withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan now!

• Stop privatization of civil services
• Reverse NDAA Issue an executive order directing federal authorities to not implement the police state measures of the recently passed NDAA law
• Overturn the Bill H.R.347 
• Create a Massive Green Energy Infrastructure Project
• End drone killing and drone surveillance
• Stop the Keystone XL pipeline

• Issue an executive order preventing LA Governor Jindal and company from gutting medicaid and public hospital funding

• Stop the demolition of The Iberville Housing Development
• Create jobs for All
• Mass, direct-government employment program, now!
• Put all New Orleans teachers fired after Katrina back to work now! No more scabs for America's teachers
• End government support of for-profit education.
  
• Institute a Federal Public Works Program paid for by big oil companies including Shell and BP to clean up the Gulf of Mexico and restore the infrastructure of the Gulf.

Give President Obama a 99% UnWelcome: Meet 2pm Wednesday. June 25th to Chalkupy The Amphitheater across from Jackson Square  (near the corner of Decatur and St. Ann).

Bring chalk, signs, pots and pans, chants, friends, and, most importantly, yourself.